Christian, a young wannabe Bohemian poet living in 1899 Paris, defies his
father by joining the colorfully diverse clique inhabiting the dark, fantastical
underworld of Paris' now legendary Moulin Rouge. In this seedy but
glamorous haven of sex, drugs and newly-discovered electricity, the poet-
innocent finds himself plunged into a passionate but ultimately tragic love
affair with Satine, the club's highest paid star and the city's most famous
courtesan. Their romance is played out against the infamous club - a
meeting place of high life and low, where slumming aristocrats and the
fashionably rich mingled with workers, artists, Bohemians, actresses and
courtesans.